Folding bed.



Patented Apr. 2, l90l.

A. RUSSELL. FOLDING'BED. Application filed Aug--20. 1900.).

(No Model.)

INVENTOI? V aflndnewzzcssell WITNESSES A TTOHNEY .NITED STATES "ATENTOFFICE.

ANDREW RUSSELL, OF VANCOUVER, CANADA, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGN- MENTS,OF ONE-HALF TO JOSIAS COOTE, OF SAME PLACE.

FOLDING BED.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Iletters Patent No. 671,297, dated April 2,1901.

Application filed August 20, 1900. Serial No. 27,449. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANDREW RUSSELL, a citizen of the Dominion of Canada,residing at Vancouver, in the Province of British Columbia, Canada, haveinvented a new and useful Folding Bed, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention has reference to improve ments in folding beds, relatingparticularly ID to improvements in the invention set forth in CanadianPatent No. 67,799, issued to me on the th day of June, 1900; and myobject is to provide a bed-frame that may be narrowed to be used as asingle bed and r5 shortened, converting it into a suitable cot for achild, or extended to full size, at pleasure, and thus occupy the spacethat is absolutely necessary only, and also to provide a bed-frame thatmay be folded into a small 20 parcel when taken apart for transportationor for any other purpose. I attain this object by the apparatusillustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 shows anisometric view of my improved bed-frame. Fig. 2 shows an enlarged viewof one of the telescopic side frames or rods of the bed. Fig. 3 is acrosssection of the same, taken on a line a a through one of thesuitable collars. Fig. :1: is a detail of the mechanism for fasteningthe ends of the side frames to the posts. Fig. 5 is a plan View of oneof the collars, having the sockets for securing the side frames. Fig. 6shows one of the telescopic tie-rods for con- 5 necting the side bars atthe head and foot, respectively, and preventing them from contracting;and Fig. 7 is an enlarged detail of the mechanism for contracting orexpanding the bed and a thumb-nut for fastening it 0 Where desired.

Similar characters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

The head-posts 10 and the foot-posts 11 are preferably of tubing, havingslots 12 and 13, respectively, down their inner sides from their tops tothe plane of the bed. Securely fixed to the posts 10 and 11, at thelower ends of their slots 12 and 13, are dip-brackets 14c and 15,suitably secured to the posts, the brackets 14 being on the rear side ofthe bed and the brackets 15 being on the front side thereof. Saidbrackets 14 and 15 are provided with collar-sockets 16 for a purpose tobe seen presently.

Rigidly fixed to the opposite ends of a telescopic bar 17, designed toform the rear side of a bed, are castings 18, having verticallydisposedtongues 18 arranged to fit into the sockets in the brackets 14. Thisholds the rear side posts 10 and 11 in a rigid position.

19 indicates a telescopic bar similar to the bar 17, designed for thefront side frame of my bed, and on the opposite ends of this bar thecastings 18 are loosely mounted, providing journaled supports,-whichallow said bar to turn to reduce or expand the bed, as will be madeclear hereinafter.

The side bars 17 and 19 are composed of pieces of tubing a and b, I)being designed to slide into a and fixed at the desired points by pins20 taking through apertures therein. The side bars 17 and 19 areconnected at intervals by flexible strips 21 of any suitable material,and these strips 21 are connected together by strips 22 of a similarmaterial, placed at a certain distance apart and parallel to the sidebars 17 and 19.

The head-posts 10 are connected by a flexible lattice 23, of anysuitable material, the

connectedends of which, on its opposite sides,

lie in the slots 12 and are retained in a vertical slidable position andwithin the hollow tubing composing the posts by the pins connecting theslats together projecting on each side of said slats; but the topcorners of said lattice are pivoted to the posts 10 by pins 24 withinthe slots 12.

The foot-posts 11 are connected together by a lattice similar to thelattice 23, as 25.

26 indicates a detachable brace or rod coilstructed telescopicallysimilar to the side bars 17 and 19 and having downwardly-turned hooks 26to be placed over the side bars 17 and 19. One of these ties is placedbetween the opposite ends of the bars 17 and 19, which 5 prevents thebed from contracting and the side bars 19 from turning when a weight isplaced on the strips 21 and 22.

Detachably mounted on one end of the side bar 19, which is squared orflattened, is a crank-handle 27' for the purpose of turning the side bar1 9,and thus contracting the bed when desired, and threaded into thecrank of said handle in proximity to its boss is a thumb-screw 29, whichwhen the crank is in the position shown in Fig. 7 holds it in a lockedposition by engaging the clip-bracket 18.

To reduce the bed in width, the thumb screw is slacked, the tie-rods 26are removed and set with the hooks the proper distance apart, and thecrank 27 is turned in the direction of the arrow, which winds the strips26 on the bar 19. tween the bars 19 and 17, which will be controlledfrom further contraction by the tierods 26 being inserted between thesaid side bars.

By reason of the sections a of the side bars 17 and 19 being larger thanthe sections 1) it is necessary to provide thickened portions on thesections b for the strips 21 to take around, so that said strips will beall on an even plane. This I do by providing slidahle collars orferrules 28 on the sections 1), and I prevent these collars from turningby having one of the sides of the sections 5 flattened and thickened,p'artsof the collars lying in such flattened portions. (See Fig. 3.)

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to beprotected in by Letters Patent, is

1. As an improvement in folding beds-the combination with the head andfoot posts, and collapsible head and foot ends connected with the saidhead and foot posts of brackets secured upon the posts, side barsmounted at their ends in the brackets, said side bars consisting oftelescopic sections, one of said bars being rotatably mounted and havingmeans at one end for turning it, and flexible cross-strips, having oneend made fast to one of the side bars, their other ends being secured tothe rotatable side bar to wind up thereon as the posts are drawntogether and This reduces the distance be- I to unwind as the posts areseparated, substantiallyas shown for the p u rposes described 2. In afolding bed having corner-posts of tubular form with slots on the innersides thereof, clip-brackets 14 and 15 fixed to such posts at an evendistance from their lower ends and sockets in such brackets; atelescopic side bar 17 on the rear side of the bedframe, having castings18 fixed to its opposite ends; downwardly-disposed tongues on suchcastings designed to lie in the sockets aforesaid; a telescopic bar 19on the other side of the bed-frame having castings loosely mounted onits ends with the tongues to take into the recesses in the brackets onthe front side of the head and foot posts; straps 21 connecting thetelescopic side bars at intervals, and means for turning the front sidebar whereby the bed-frame will be contracted,and a thumbscrew forlocking same, as and for the purposes set forth.

3. In combination with a bed-frame having its corner-post of tubularmaterial, the head and foot corner-posts being respectively connected byadjustable lattice 23 and 25, the opposite lowersides of which arearranged to slide up and down in slots on the inner sides of said postsabove the plane of the bed-frame support; clip-brackets l4 and 15 havingvertical sockets therein fixed to the posts below the slots therein andat an even distance from their lower ends'; telescopic side bars 17 and19 forming each side of the bed-frame, having tongued castings thereindesigned to lie in the sockets in the brackets, the rear side bar 17being fixed and the front side bar being rotatable, and telescopictie-rods 26, having downwardly-bent hooks 26 on the opposite endsthereof to engage the side bars, substantially as and for the purposesset forth.

ANDREW RUSSELL.

Witnesses:

W. G. TRETHEWEY, ROWLAND BRITTAIN.

